One of the world's leading CAN development companies

…with our main operations focusing on automotive, trucks, industrial automation, and medical equipment.

We cover a broad spectrum of competence and capability in CAN, with development of innovative and creative CAN products tailor-made for the engineer. Our products are spread in 18 segments, and our own strength and strategic partnerships enable us both to compete and to collaborate in all international markets. Kvaser has the world as its market, but research, development and production are carried out principally in Sweden.

We began in the early 1980s to specialize in Distributed Embedded Control Systems. A few years later the CAN protocol was published and the first CAN chip became available. Our founders quickly realized the excellent features of CAN, and made the strategic decision to dedicate its resources to CAN solutions, and became one of the very first companies in the CAN industry.

Highlights

1983 Bosch starts development of CAN
1985 Intel gets involved in the project
1985 Kvaser starts focus on CAN technology
1988 First CAN chip on the market
1990 CanKingdom, Kvaser's Higher Layer protocol, released on the market
1994 CanKing is launched
1996 WAVEcan released on the market
1997 LAPcan released on the market
1998 Second generation WAVEcan reach the market
2000 CanKingdom International is founded
2001 Kvaser USBcan released on the market
2002 Kvaser Memorator is released on the market
2003 Development of third generation of WAVEcan begins
2005 Kvaser Leaf family with MagiSync™ released
2006 Memorator Professional, USBcan Professional released
2007 Kvaser Linx™, and PCIEcan for PCI Express
2008 Kvaser BlackBird released in May

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